Co-op offers livestock producers and companion animal owners high-quality rations backed by the latest industry research to meet the specific nutritional needs of your animals. Feed manufacturing facilities are located in Jackson, LaVergne, and Rockford (Tenco). Co-op also offers pet food, livestock supplement products, salt, milk replacers, and various feed ingredients. Co-op professionals serve as a resource for member Co-ops, associate members, and customers at each step in the product development process as they research, develop, formulate, manufacture, and distribute top-quality feed products. Our feed staff has the expertise and knowledge to help you choose the most effective solutions for your particular situation. Let us help you increase the effectiveness of your livestock operation.
Through Alliance Animal Care, LLC, a joint venture of Tennessee Farmers Cooperative and MFA Incorporated, Co-op enjoys competitive buying power and specialized logistics to serve as a resource for the system’s member Co-ops, associate members, and customers. Through this venture, Co-op offers animal care products from leading industry suppliers like Zoetis, Merck, Elanco, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, and others at competitive prices. The availability of these brand name products, coupled with the expertise available at your local Co-op and through the knowledgeable field staff, ensures customers of a dependable source for their varied animal care needs.
Co-op offers all the equipment and fencing products you need to work, contain, and care for all sorts of traditional and non-traditional farm animals and pets. If you’re looking to fulfill the items on your TAEP (Tennessee Ag Enhancement Program) shopping list, constructing a fence, or gearing up for hay season, Co-op can provide the products and guidance you need. Choose from items like gates, corral panels, and bunk feeders produced at Co-op’s own Metal Fabrication plant in LaVergne, or select from nationally known suppliers of fencing, hardware, and livestock equipment. Co-op experts can help you design animal containment and handling facilities to make your job safer and easier.
Nitrate poisoning occurs when animals consume hay containing high levels of free nitrates. Under drought conditions, both sorghum X sudangrass hybrids and pearl millet have the...
As we supplement cattle throughout the winter season, producers should understand how nutritional needs are core to economical production. Nutrient requirements will vary as to...
As farmers plan for fall/winter calving season, neonatal diarrhea will soon become a concern for many beef producers. This condition has a myriad of causes that can range from very mild...
The 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting will be held on Tuesday December 15, 2020.